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A stronger green business sector in New York City could help us address the most serious of society’s problems: climate change, lack of jobs, and a diminishing average quality of life. But the industry’s players could be more strongly connected to policymakers and one another in a way that could strengthen sustainability investing — all that’s needed is something to bring them together. Or, in other words, here’s your opportunity to make a tremendous difference: Join the movement to form a powerful Green Economy Think Tank in NYC. Read how below.

How Ideas Come True

One day, a truly innovative Big Idea hits you over the head mid-meeting or at an industry conference. You gasp, stand up so fast that your chair tips backward, and blurt out your genius, world-changing scheme. Applause reverberates. The journey from our current reality to your newly imagined and superior one involves planning, mobilization, perception changing, and execution. And you’re the only one who really understands the essence of how the Big Idea works. Fortunately, a fellow conference attendee flicks the idea from your head to his like a baton in a relay race. You go home, while he vets the initiative through stakeholders, manages deployment, and delivers back to you all the credit you deserve for thinking up the Big Idea in the first place.

Nope.

On this message, Greg Wendt is very clear: you must rear your own brainchild.

Momentum wanes fast after conferences and meetings.

Do the work now.

Who?

Gregory Wendt lives in Los Angeles. He’s a wealth adviser, economist, and thought leader in sustainable business investing known for his refusal to let a good idea die after the meeting.

The day after a conference, most people pack up and get on back to their daily grind. But after Wendt’s first environmental conference back in 1989, he immediately hosted a follow-on work session at his Santa Monica home. The conference attendees who joined him there went on to see several of their ideas through to execution throughout the Los Angeles area.

In 2008, Wendt’s Big Idea was the Green Economy Think Tank (GETT), now a nonprofit with a self-explanatory name that’s present in L.A., San Francisco, Portland, and New Orleans. In August 2012, Wendt came to New York to begin executing the group’s latest initiative: inspiring New York’s community of sustainability leaders to establish an NYC Green Economy Think Tank Day and spearhead some much-needed action and cohesion.

For the idea’s kickoff, Green Spaces hosted an extra big, extra special Idea Bounce (even the usual dumplings on offer were upgraded to a full-on buffet) to bat around ways to get GETT Day going in NYC. On that Wednesday afternoon, sunny brilliance streamed in through the tall windows of our historic, TriBeCa space; more brilliance emanated from the brains of the leaders in the room. In attendance were an expert CSR consultant, a savvy internet architect, a veteran community manager, a physicist breaking ground in organizational development of macrosystems, and a galvanizing life coach; and representatives of Green Map, NYC Acre, Mission Markets, WeTheWorld.net, and Riverkeeper, New York’s clean water advocate, among many others, of course. The ensuing salon engendered impossibly exciting thinking and sharing, and each idea-haver was charged with the responsibility to carry it out.

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Meanwhile, the entire world of SCIENCE, lazy copy and paste journalism and Liberal progressivism had allowed bank-funded and corporate-run “CARBON TRADING STOCK MARKETS”(ruled by trustworthy politicians) to trump the UN’s and entire world’s efforts into 3rd world fresh water relief, starvation rescue and 3rd world education for just over 26 years of insane attempts at climate CONTROL.

And the best part? “Further Climate Change Fear Mongering of the Voter’s Children is Political Suicide.”